The Mata Amritanandamayi Math has stated in a press release that the Ashram is an open book. Any official concerned may check the financial accounts of the Mata Amritanandamayi Math at any time. All accounts are submitted at the right time to the government.

The Math has no accounts whatsoever in any Swiss bank or other foreign bank. Amma visits countries on the invitation of the devotees there. She is not a trustee of any of the Ashrams abroad. The allegations against the Math are totally false and baseless.

Amma requests all her children to remain peaceful and calm and not to react emotionally, the statement added.

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open book with blank pages, answer the specific questions with specific answers
1. Was money and gold illegally transferred to family members in a freezer box (claiming to be fish)
2. Were sisters married with dowry from devotees money
3. read the book in full as I have done and write

Mr.Samuel,
I am a person who have known Amma for over 20 years and resides in the United States. Let me attempt to answer your questions from my personal point of view:
Q1. Was money and gold illegally transferred to family members in a freezer box (claiming to be fish)?
A: Big NO. No one would question if anything of material value is carried uncovered in plain view any time of the day or night in the premises of the ashram, why then would it have to be hidden let alone in any smelly box. Gail is getting old and her ability to lie is diminishing just like her memory. Above all, the very person Gail alleges to have carried cash, already denied it. The case has been closed right then and there.
Q2. Were sisters married with dowry from devotees money
A: No. You forget one crucial point here that – Satguru Mata Amritanandamayi Devi IS OUR MOTHER. She can choose to do with whatever we donate to her anyway she wishes to at anytime. It is none of your business to prod into the matters of my mother and her children. Amma’s children treat each other like family. Amritapuri Ashram is one big multi-cultural multi-national family. We westerners are taken care of very well and we cherish the love and affection of our Indian brothers and sisters. There is something you clearly missed out – Amma has conducted the weddings of 1000s of devotees and impoverished couples, wherein Amma offered the gold. Not just a little gold for the sake of it, Mr.Samuel, she provided all requisite items for a typical traditional Hindu wedding – gold necklaces, bangles, wedding dresses for both bride & groom and feast for all family members. According to you, that should ALL be illegal then, wont it Mr.Samuel? Amma will continue to offer the same. In fact, every single one of her children would want her to continue to do the same. I for one definitely want to see her do more of it. These were all documented and is available in the public domain: http://www.amritapuri.org/13489/58marriage.aum
Q3. read the book in full as I have done and write
A: Thats not a question. But since you asked for specific details, let me look at it as a question and try to be specific in my answer – loosers will lie and cheat. That is all they know and trash is what they make. You can call it a book if you want to, that is your choice. That does not change the fact that it STILL is trash. Even a person living so far from India like myself have documented evidence of Gail lying in the past. Mr.Samuel, you can’t even imagine the volume of evidence the Ashram has against her. You and I have better things to do in life than carry her trash in ours heads. Trash is where trash belongs.
I am bewildered… why would you turn a blind eye at all of the massive humanitarian efforts your country has ever witnessed undertaken by a dark skinned Kerala woman – someone who grew up and lives among you, but wastes no time to rush to discredit her without any material evidence whatsoever? It is unfortunate that a westerner like me have to point that to you.
Forgive me if I were a bit too specific and direct in my words. After all, you clearly asked for it.
God bless!
Arch

I think the statement given by the math is more than enough. Why should the math respond partocularly to every incident as she describes? It is not answerable whatsoever to an unstable n baseless minds’ comments. Why should the ashram fall down at her level n respond ?

Duleep,
The answer is a clear “NO”. You will know that your questions do not have any basis when you read the letter from Gail’s confidant and best friend – Gretchen McGregor and the letters from persons who she mentions in the book who have already denied the false stories. Well, if you think you are Gail’s best friend and know better, please feel free to offer your first hand information here.
Below are Ms.McGregor’s own words:
“This is the Gail Tredwell I know – a woman with an honesty problem who lies when it is expedient for her to do so. She lied to my face, she lied about me in her book, she lied to the face of U.S. Government authorities, and she is lying to the world now.”
Duleep, these are the words of a person with first hand information; someone who has witnessed the events in Gail’s life with her two eyes. As a person who knew Gail myself, she was the most outspoken and intolerant woman I have met in my life. She was assertive in a rude and overbearing way.
Many years back when a group of thugs who called themselves atheists, tried to cause a disruption in the Ashram, we saw Gail hit them left, right and center. She was more masculine than all the men present. She was so outspoken, it was not possible for her to hold back the smallest inconvenience caused to her anytime. In the early days, there was a period when Gail controlled everything in the ashram. When Amma showed attention to someone a little bit more than Gail thought was necessary, Gail would walk up to that person and annouce that she does not like that person. Despite her dishonesty problem, intense jealousy, anger and an uncontrollable tendency to incite trouble, everyone loved her, as there was a kind and loving side to her, which everyone appreciated.
Read Gretchen McGregor’s full letter here:https://letterstothemother.wordpress.com/2014/02/22/gail-tredwell-lied-about-me-kusuma/